Method and means for laying shingles



erases is". VJELLMME, EXVER EDGE, JERSEY.

i .application filed January 11;,i922. serial No. 528,557.

To whom i3 may concern.:

Be it known that l, lllnwsnn J. Winnmrs, a citizen of the llnited States, and a resident of River Edge. yState of New Jersey, have invented a certain Improvement in Methods and ll/lcans for Laying Shingles, of which the 'following is a Specification.

ln laying shingles upon a roof much labor cost and loss of time are involved in ,the accurate alignment and correctly measured spacing of the shingles.

The present invention relates to a method f and means whereby this alignment and Spacing may be rapidly accurately and cheaply7 accomplished under factory conditions, and whereby the rooer may be supplied with packages of shingles which have only to be unfolded and laid down to be ready for nailing in place.

ln order to accomplish this the invention consists in securing the' shingles to flexible strips in proper alignment and properly spaced, so that the assembled group so 'formed may be folded in convenient packages for shipment. preferred embodiment, the securing strips used are made ofthin soft metal adapted to be folded down upon the edgesy of the shingles. A

Certain embodimenis'lo the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure l .is a, face View of one end ol a preferred securinggstrip, Figure 2 is a similar view of one end of the same with two shingles in place. Figure 3 is an end View of a part of a bundle ready for shipment,

Figure 4- is a sectional view through any A assembled group, and .Figure 5 is a face vienT of a modified itorrn.

The securing strip for the preferred form of the invention, as shown in Figure 1, consists of a band of thin soft rnetah preferably mild steel,- shown at 10, which is cut or stamped to form `folding flaps 11 along one longitudinal edge and at thetwo ends. These flaps are spaced in accordance with the proper side by side spacing of the shingles, allowingr usual distance between the contiguous edges of the saine. Pairs of openings l). are also punched in the sheet, the material :from which is left standing at right angles to the strip to form lugs as shown at 13. lThese are so spaced that the left hand lug of each' pair and the righi,

ln its more specific ,between the lugs 13, as shown in Figure 2, 'gendA are secured in place by bending the flaps l1 and the lugs 13 over the top and side edges'of each shingle as 'shown (see Figures 2 and 4)'. YThe dotted lines in Figure 1 show the space provided to accommodate the thickness or' the shingles. i

When the shingles have been thug secured in an aligned and spaced group '(usually thirteen in a group) the strip is bent back and forth in an accordeon pleat as shown inl Figure; This vprovides a convenient, compact and secure bundle for shipment. lfdesired,-the strip canbe weakened be- .between the shingles bylcuttingl outl an opening 12 and thereby making it easier to bend the stripf-in the manner just described.

Inl use,` theiroofer-has only to stretch out one yof these bundles to form' at once a properly aligned and spaced assembly of shingles'which can be laid along the roof and quickly secured in place bynailing.

The invention `covers any mode of forming aligned and spaced groups of shingles con nested by one or more flexible stripsoi any appropriate material.

*or instance, as shown in Figure 5, the narrow bands' 15, simply riveted to the backs of the shinglesmay take the place of v the bandit).

1. As an article of manufacture, a group otshingles in proper alignment and properly spaced in combinationiwith one or more thin flexible metal strips secured along the backs thereof by metal connections.

I A securing strip for the purpose described consistin'g of a ythin metal band having evenly spaced folding llaps along one longitudinal edge and pairs of lugs similarly spaced stamped up from the body of the band.V

8. ln 'a shingle fastener, an clon ated member adapted to be secured to a roo and having a pair of spaced normally upstanding ears, said ears adapted tobe bent downyverdly over the edges of a' shingle' over# lying sarfi mens?? im" securing the edges.

lfm a shnge fasten, im @ongaed member adapte t@ be seemed im mmf @m having a pulty of pairs of normay upsmuding ears in series, the Said @ars oang edges; of Shingles @varying Said mam'bar ,Becuxyg raid edges? the said pambeng ranged so to pov' intervening spam-,s between the midi shnges, v

in., esmomy whereo have hereto @et my hand. 

